Drives & Drive Racks

Drive Your Process with Precision

High-end servomotor drive hardware is an integral part of any Aerotech motion control platform. Aerotech’s drives do much more than provide world-class motion control performance. They also provide tools for managing and controlling precision motion control applications. Our drives contain ample memory for process control and data collection, extensive I/O points for sensor integration and operator control stations, and interfaces to standard industrial laser tools. Features like Position Synchronized Output, Autofocus, and Infinite Field of View are easy to access and deploy to your precision machine control.

This approach allows you and your team to deploy any motion control solution without the burden of learning a new way of developing your application.

Expandability Comes Easy

Aerotech’s approach to I/O is simple — accessibility. Order an I/O expansion board with any of our single-axis motor drives, or with the XR3 multi-axis drive rack.

You can enjoy over 192 I/O points on a 4-axis control system! In addition to these 192 dedicated process I/O points, each drive includes the required encoder feedback inputs, end-of-travel limit inputs, home switch input, and Hall sensor inputs to control precision servomotors, stages, galvo scan-heads, or any other similar devices.

Several drives include a dedicated Position Synchronized Output (PSO), which is used to control a process tool, often an industrial laser. Aerotech’s drive hardware also includes connectivity features for industrial buses such as Modbus TCP, EtherCAT, and Ethernet/IP.

The GL4 provides an optimized platform for controlling Aerotech’s family of AGV scanners. Industry leading settling times, long-term thermal stability, and micron-level tracking accuracy are possible… More >

The Npaq is the high performance rack-mountable servo amplifier solution for the Automation 3200 motion system. The Npaq can control up to six axes of motion using a variety of plug-in amplifiers. More >

The Npaq® 6U is designed for applications that exceed the power capacity of Aerotech’s 3U Npaq. The Npaq 6U can be configured with higher wattage transformers and a larger capacity linear amplifier… More >